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About them GIFs!
9 years ago
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The animated GIF thumbnail issue is apparently due to a couple of things:
The way GIF compression works, where each frame contains data on what has changed from the prior frame, and FA for inexplicable reasons only looks at the final frame to generate a thumbnail for an animated GIF post.
While I knew about the former (and it makes sense), the latter is just, what? So to make it work I had to move frame 1 to the very end (as that's what I wanted on the thumbnail), and then since each frame was just lines on transparency, I painted in a lot of white on that frame. It's all very silly but it did work, so yay?
The way GIF compression works, where each frame contains data on what has changed from the prior frame, and FA for inexplicable reasons only looks at the final frame to generate a thumbnail for an animated GIF post.
While I knew about the former (and it makes sense), the latter is just, what? So to make it work I had to move frame 1 to the very end (as that's what I wanted on the thumbnail), and then since each frame was just lines on transparency, I painted in a lot of white on that frame. It's all very silly but it did work, so yay?
Now I just wish Clip would allow me to set the fps lower than 8 :<